Infinity Ward Fails Again

Game Developer Infinity Ward has failed yet again with there latest release, Modern Warfare 2. New mods have surfaced online for the console version of the game allowing God Mode, Spawning with an AC-130, Golden Desert Eagle, Disable Enemies Perks and plenty more.

Also, the very nasty bug that allowed for an infinite amount of care packages is back again after being unsuccessfully patched 4 times.
(Culture, PC, PS3, Xbox 360)

I want IW to sufferBut not to the extent that people have to go out of their way to mod this game. It's unfair for other players. I want them to understand that their core mechanics are garbage and unbalanced. The fact that it seems so easy to hack this game is just sad on IW's part. This game is hopeless.

So far, the PS3 version remains safer than the 360 version in terms of hacks and mods, at least that's what I find. If you hackers are going to destroy the PS3 version I would be pretty upset. That's the big problem: I want IW to pay, but I don't want it to be at the expense of honest gamers just looking for some fun. The problem then is, who to blame? IW for being lazy or the hackers for hacking?

On one hand I'm happy because I hate IW's laziness and incompetence. On the other I don't see why people should promote this crap and approve it because it's unfair for the people who bought the game and want to play fairly. Hackers like this are equally to blame as IW themselves. On the OTHER hand, the only way for IW to wake up and smell the green tea is if hacks like this are rampant and run wild all over the servers.

I'm just waiting for my copy of MAG and BC2. IW truly has screwed up like none other. They got greedy, they rushed their game, and they turned their backs on their fans. Developers play as big as a role as the games they make. IW has broken my trust. I look at guys like Zipper and see that though their game has issues they are rock solid in supporting their community and fixing their game. IW, who is much more successful can't do that. What does that say about IW and Zipper? IW has ruined their reputation.

This truly is a sad, sad, game. The networking is piss poor, the mechanics are ruined, and the game has more cracks than Whitney Huston.

... and when MW3 comes out it'll out sell even MW2. Great job gamers, great job supporting this type of game development. We've really shown a lot of developers what kind of games they should bring out that we'll give them tonnes of sales.

I really like IW,with COD on PC they provided me some of the best memories in FPS gaming.I cant understand how they messed up so badly,COD 4 wasn't issue free,but in comparison MW2 is a mess. They had 2 years to improve on COD 4,they didn't rebuild the engine so mostly it was just designing levels and gameplay features,but it seems so buggy.

If it's one thing i've grown to hate since the patch culture became prominent on consoles,is the feeling were paying to became game testers. I'm not Halo fan but bungie seem to have nailed the QA process,and so have a few others.Most recently Zipper,they should also be applauded with MAG.Like the gameplay or not,but It's the most ambitious FPS on today's consoles,and from day 1 it was rock solid,with only o small patches fixing really minor issues.

Me: Hey iw, just wanted to say, although COD4 isn't perfect, its my favorite online game so far this gen, and it just keeps me coming back(Jan 08)

IW guy #1: It seems like our fans like the game. Lets spend 2 years making a sequel, but lets not change the game. Everything is the same, but we'll use different guns. IW guy #2: And lets make our perk+equipment system different. We'll make them more noob friendly. And make sure grenade launchers are unbalanced so noobs get into the game. the grenade launcher won't replace equipment or first perk. IW guy #1: Hey why not add heartbeat sensors, that'll ruin S&D. And lets make worse maps with more camper spots than in the first game. Oooh, lets add a teleportation perk. IW guy #2: Nah, teleportation sounds too unrealistic. I got an idea, why not make a knife teleportation perk, but we'll call it "commando" 1.5 years later: IW guy #1: Alright, so we're doing developing the game. What now? beta test maybe? IW guy #2: nah, this things going to sell millions, why waste money beta testing. IW guy #1: yeah, lets not waste money investing in lagless dedicated servers. Let's keep all the hundreds of millions we're going to make. IW guy #2: lets finish the DLC now, so we an release it later and sucker another $10-$30 from our fans. 3 weeks later IW guy #1: so we're finally done with the game. IW guy #2: We're still months from release though. IW guy #1: lets spend the rest of the time imaging how much money we're going to get. IW guy #2: i calculated and we're only going to get $400 million IW guy #1: Lets make a 'prestige edition' and make it the price of an xbox arcade, and include cheap second hand nv goggles.

I'm really looking forward to "Ways MW2 fails part 290"! That will be the one with "infinite nuclear bomb drop that only kills the other team" and "Ultimate camp with smart rail gun that shoots through everything and hits every time". Also infinite care packages returns after 112 patches.

Week after week, I wait in anticipation for the next update! It appears more regularly than HHG flamebait titles!

Your all sad for continuing to own this game. I sold my copy at a nice tidy profit :) Bought for £25 and traded for £35. That's all it was good for. All you people who actually play it really need a reality check.

@sikbeta and @stickzI wouldn't mind buying MW3, but I have serious trust issues with IW now. I didn't mind buying CoD4, but even some people crapped down on CoD4. Popular games like Halo and Cod are always crapped on by somebody. MW2 on the other hand is making enemies from former fans. And, unlike CoD4, there are much stronger and serious reasons to hate the game.

Again, I simply cannot trust IW anymore to do anything. They need a serious reality check.

@stickz

I absolutely love Halo and Bungie. I really am itching to buy a 360, and I really want to play the damn game. Bungie are amazing, and yeah, they take and support their game like none other. Unlike IW they use the money towards the game.

I'm saddened by how bad IW is in comparison. Bungie has earned a lot of respect.

IW are just so damn lucky that people like their core game(or, acually COD4 since they changed sod all of any import)or they wouldn't play though this type of never ending rubbish. The damn sad thing about it is the way they rested on their laurels and saw nothing wrong in going for the profit at every single turn and sod the gamers who support them.

I've played the SP campaign and some MP at a mates as I refused to buy it out of anger at the price hikes and their treatment of their PC fans-not to mention the lack of respect they showed with their BS reasons for doing so. I can't pretend I think it's in any way correct for a market leading shooter in this day and age, to release with virtually no QA and NO betas. Did they think they'd be able to cope because it's the third time we've been sold this same basic game in three years(at least online it is-zombies from treyarch and Spec Ops from IW don't amount to a new online game really)? Whatever, I'm not regretting my stance one bit-and I LOVE COD for some quick lulz usually.

The way they have become like mini Kotick's themselves is a bit sad, really, and it's sad that they seem to care too little about their own creation to provide dedicated servers for EVERY platform when it was the most obvious, quickest, easiest and most effective way to improve their game in the online arena that made it famous and popular. We gamers made things worse by not supporting our PC brothers as well-not to mention few US gamers caring that Acti warmed up for hiking their prices next time by stealthing them in in the UK. Why do we split ourselves along platform lines just to suit the industry's alterior motives anyway? Are we so blind?

Whatever,it's no crime to lovee, bjuy or still enjoy playing the game-it's a great shooter underneath all the subterfuge and lazy profit whoring-that's certain. The problem is if we, as a community, jump in bed just as readily with them if they do the same, or similar thing next time round and, right now, that's up in the air. It's sure they have a billion fans but there HAS been a backlash because of the online failings of the game so I'm not quite certain if they will get the same momentum behind their next effort. A lot hangs on just how successful other blockbuster shooters are(not your Halos and Killzones as exclusives don't matter to COD-no matter how big as they have double the market to aim for)like the upcoming rebooted MoH and BFBC(which, to me, is just a better game in many ways and has overhauled COD while IW have allowed the series to stall in their greed). If they can start promising a real challenge-even with their next game after these-then IW might just pull their finger out and by the time MW3 comes round it should be new engine and series reboot time, no?

Anyhow, a replay of what we have this time would be incredibly upsetting for us and from IW. No matter how much people like the game it's no longer got the lead it once did and has been the victim of greed at every turn. It's another sad point that what could have been another great step forwards for online shooters ended up being more of an advert for the way greed can corrupt a once honourable developer. Their earlier talent has carried them this time buit a repeat performance could, and should see them scuppered-lets just hope they return to caring about their games as much as their fans do and did.

I actually really like this game.And I'm sure I'm not the only one. Not quite sure why all the hate. I played a match where someone was doing the infinite care package thing. I just switched to Demolition. I have yet to see anyone exploit that glitch in a Demolition or Free-for-all match.

It's when your team is about to clearly win/winning and everyone gets a connection to server lost error. The whole game goes right out the window. No stats recorded. I'm guessing the host disconnects their modem or just shuts off their console in order to make it occur.

How freaking sad are you to care that much about a loss in a videogame you have to ruin it for everyone? This bug is the one that makes the game unplayable for me. While it maybe happens once in 30-50 games... it's just getting cheated like that that really gets to me.

&quot;Sooo great that this game is going to die :D&quot;Let me guess, you think that final nail in the coffin will be when BF: BC2 is released? Yeah, dream on bud. This game is not going anywhere and will be played for well over two more years. Even COD4 had major hacks and is still being played so why not wish for more fixes and just play the game instead of hating on it. The hate around here is getting old.

@ mastiffchild

Do you own a 360? If so, then how do you explain not buying a game with glitches and higher price points and yet buy a console that the manufacturer admittedly sold to you with faulty hardware and higher price points? Just thought I would ask. I have a 360 and can pass over the fault of the hardware to play the games and in the case of MW2, I can pass over the few glitchers and enjoy a game I like.

i dont understand why....people are going through the trouble to glitch and just get to 10th prestige on this COD....mw2 is the worst out of cod4 and waw lol...i dont play it anymore...cuz its that bad and filled with too many camping scrubs...its mag bioshock 2 and mass effect for me

It's articles like this that just remind me it was the right thing to do to give IW the finger and wait for bad company 2. I'll support devs that care about their fanbase an have a passion for their games.

@ChrisWFellow gamer, who sees the real problem. Hackers, modders, glitch abusers are all to blame for this.

They test these games before launch with internal testing crews for days with guys that know how to crack games. This is their job. These evil doers out there doing it for nothing, get a life, draw a picture, plant a tree, make a baby, I don't know do something productive other than ruining this game for the rest of us. Maybe you could try to actually play the game.

Not to leave out some things I don't like about the game such as kill streak reward orgies and dual wielding. I am not a fan of dual wielding. Have you ever tried to dual wield any kind of firearm whether it be a two rubber band guns or pistols? Try two double barrel shotguns. Give me a friggin break! I guess I miss that more realistic feel that COD4 had. Onto Bad Company 2 next month.

@ 1.6 curiousity consumes theeyou can't the player or being curious and using exploit, only the people that make it, in this case infinity ward, if someone hack into the game and did this then your point is right

@ article

they did not fail the game is still fun when you don't encounter the cheaters, but i still blame them and i think they should make the new dlc for the problems we encountered

When don't they? I love how they have these big attitudes and mindsets that they're the best and everyone else making FPS sucks. Much like Levine and his absurd 2K team with BioShock... When just about every FPS I've played is better than either of the franchises they offer.

Killzone and Resistance are both better franchises, built on a wealth more depth than either of the above franchises. Universal aclaim means nothing... Taylor "no pitch" Swift is super popular with 75% of the world... Yet has no talent and can't carry a tune or play the guitar her rep tells her to hold. Case and point.

Talent is subjective... I once knew a plumber who couldn't unclog a toilet for "no pun intended" $*it... Called another one and he got it done right away. Without using Rid-X. Imagine that. I assimilate Swifts talents with that of a plumbers... They both deal in $*IT. One cleans out and the other spouts it.

I read an interesting article lastnight... About Disney. How are they afloat? Their network is one of the lowest in the nelsons. Their movies tank often and yet they bank their whole future on 13 to 17 year old kids. Strange, huh? Viable markets never bleed out when you're done with one another is ready to go from the baiter.

The fact that you think Killzone & Resistence are better franchises than COD and Bioshock makes you sound like a dumb$h*t. COD 1 brought so much to the table, was the true successor to MOH:Allied Assault. The scale of the battles and the cutscenes were fantastic. COD:United Offensive is probably one of the best campaign's (add-on) in any series. The MP was also great, not to mention the mod "Revolt", which was basically modern warfare multiplayer. COD2 continued w/the great campaigns and had amazing MP. COD 3 was kind of garbage, it was rushed & didn't come to PC so it suffered a little bit. COD 4--there isn't much to say the game was unbelievable, campaign & MP.... Universal acclaim DOES matter. The MP of every COD has been more popular than KZ & Resistance. I liked the resistance campaign, I will admit, but it never kept me like COD. Bioshock is a great original IP and does a lot more than KZ in terms of its campaign. KZ had AMAZING graphics, the best of any shooter, but that doesn't mean the gameplay was better than COD & Bioshock. KZ didn't break any boundaries in terms of gameplay. Here is where a person would say gamepley > graphics, but I don't need to say that b/c it's a given. Neither KZ or Resistance keep a person comin back like COD. Of course this is my OPINION, but the numbers prove that I am right. You can always find more ppl playin COD.....

I'm gonna go out on a limb here...my guess is that all the disagrees I will get will be from PS3 fanboys.

I sound like a dip$H*T because I feel, in my own opinion, that Killzone and Resistance are better franchises? No, you sound like one because you can't accept that at face value.

The fundementals on which all 4 franchises are built on is what I'm talking about. Resistance isn't trying to be anything else other than itself. Killzone 2 isn't trying to be anything its not. Bio Shock tries too hard. It's this and it's that and it's this layerd with that. It has no true identity. None. The whole COD franchise, the ones Infinity Ward helm, try too hard to change the world or be ironic. It doesn't work. Games walk a very fine line right now and to try to be too dramatic is a problem.

There is a fine line to walk, folks. Resistance does it by not adhering to the here and now, yet takes the elements it needs to. Killzone does it by offering up a surel look at life through, in a sense, the bad guys eyes. Face it, we are the bad guys in Killzone in all honesty.

So, on those merits alone... You might not like me. What I do or how I conduct my opinions but I've laid out why I feel my opinion should be valid and you simply came into this by saying I, and anyone who disagrees with you, is a dip$#IT. Sounds sad to me.

well it's all down to opinion, but the thing is in your first post you made it sound a lot more like you were stating a fact which whether the rest of us agree or not is truth.... no supprise you got the other responses back.

I have played all the games apart from the first resistance ( only played resistance 2 ) but I can't say I agree with you.

to me the only really great thing about killzone 2 was it's graphics. what was funny for me was I actually believed the hype for that game. and resistance... I wont' even go into how much of a turd i thought that game was - still it's just my opinion.

"The fundementals on which all 4 franchises are built on is what I'm talking about." You're messing with me right? Killzone offers a "surel(you mean surreal) look at life (through the bad guys eyes)" What a joke of an analysis of the COD franchise (not to mention Bioshock). COD is set in one of the most enthralling storylines of all time. It shouldn't be necessary for me to talk about the history here but you obviously don't care about that. COD put players in the middle of WWII and it had very gripping 'surreal' story lines (like the battle of Stalingrad, Pointe du Hoc & Normandy invasion, fighting against the Afrika Corps)...and you are saying that the fundamentals of the franchise are not strong? People can talk about the re-hashing of the WWII shooter as much as they want, that doesn't take away the fact that COD (infinity ward) set the standard for WWII shooters. Even World at War campaign was fantastic. The original COD & COD2 really made you feel like you were part of the larger conflict. The set pieces of the game were flawless. How did COD try and 'change the world'? They tried to (and succeeded) re-create the World War II interactive experience. They did a very good job of it and I don't think any gamer who followed COD from the beginning would disagree with that. Yes, Activision is pissing me off, and Infinity Ward kind of has too, but that doesn't make their games unoriginal or lacking in storyline.

"walking a very fine line and trying to be too dramatic" --guess what? World War II is only one of the greatest tragedies in human history--over 60 million people dead. And you think that they are 'trying to be too dramatic'?? "There is a fine line to walk, folks. Resistance does it by not adhering to the here and now, yet takes the elements it needs to" ---Resistance is OK at best. I played through both of them and my response? Meh.

Your OPINION can be valid, but that doesn't mean the facts you give in support of your opinion are valid. I don't see your opinion as logical. Yes activision is getting worse, but they weren't always bad.

...I had about 3 more paragraphs but they just disappeared for some reason...

The only way for that to happenIf for these hacks and issues to get more popular.

Also, why must this be promoted? Why can't you guys wait until the core mechanics are fixed before screwing the game up with these hacks?

It makes things difficult to fix for IW if people keep hacking the game. I'm waiting for the gameplay fixes: lunge distance on melees, underpowered snipers, etc. But with this crap they are never going to get to the gameplay fixes.

Serves IW well I guess. I just don't think it's fair for the gamer who wants to just enjoy a game of MW2.

I feel sorry for the XBL players. They seem to be most affected. On the PS3 I have never seen any of these crazy hacks. We want to fix the gameplay mechanics and believe it or not Bowling says the devs are working on the issues... but with these crazy hacks popping up they take priority over the gameplay mechanics. You guys are just slowing down IW. As much as I hate them, they are at least trying somewhat, and I WANT them to fix the damn game, but it's not going to happen. It really is a sad, sad realization.

Xiphosand lets not forget that PSN is going to charge for cross game chat when they actually get it up and running...and i am sure they are going to start charging for more than just that one feature as well.

i personally feel that live and PSN both have ups and downs even though you people don't want to admit this, which is sad. it's your own preference to which console you want to play. some people have both consoles and like both because the different controls and game play for each and i personally have played more the multi-platforms depending upon the controls.

This is nothing like SOCOMSOCOM was broken and incomplete from the beginning. Bad coding is what made that game bad, not the game itself. Every time they patched some aspect of the game, another got broken. It had really nothing to do with the players.

as for MW2, the game runs fine. It's just some people have too much time on their hands and have to find ways to exploit the game instead of playing the game. As an example, the "elevator glitch." How would anyone find out how to do that unless they are intentionally trying to go through the walls. Something like that doesn't just accidentally happen. "Ooops, I accidentally switched my control scheme and when to this one wall at this certain angle while standing and crouching until I climbed up the wall, my bad"

controllerif im not mistaken, the xbox 360 controller is a ripoff from the ps3's. right? i mean if you look at it, its just the ps3 one's, its just with the inverted look, making it look like x so that they can justify the x on the xbox, or justifying the controller.?!

Well yeah, they can't legally copy there controller. But what about PS3? We can't just cut them out. It would be like saying they stole there controller from the Dreamcast and the Dreamcast from whoever, the list goes on and on.

I do feel personally that the 360 took the PS3 controller and made it better for at least FPS's.

Not dissing the PS3 controller, just would rather use the X360 controller as it feels better and controls better (at least for me).

Yeah i guessYou feel content with changing batteries every-time they die don't you...that is soo fail playing ps3 with a xbox controls LOL and for sony ever to steal some controllers design could be from nintendo since you mentioning dreamcast there, knowing sony was years there before that console to comes, but in hell these controls look like for you to say otherwise, while indeed stealing stuff could be applied to microsoft...

If I wanted a game where I could jump high and shoot I would buy Halo 3 you think by now Infinity Ward would have fixed all these problems. I traded this game off last month I would think by now and hope COD7 will not have these problems and the game is beta tested to hell before the release. Until then I will go with Battlefield Bad Company 2 and the new Medal of Honor when they are released.

Since the BFBC2 DemoCame out I haven't even looked at this game. I already have 1000 kills and 20 hours put into a demo and THIS video is the reason for my switch. Props to dice BFBC2 is amazing. In my eyes IW is dead I have lost all respect for them.

This game is such a disappointment on so many levels. Thank you DICE for giving us an alternative from that clusterf**k of a game known as Modern Warfare 2. I'm enjoying the Bad Company 2 demo much more than MW2 and I just placed my pre order for BFBC2 along with Heavy Rain and God Of War 3.

@ WrathmanWhat does the PS3 have to do with this piece of dog turd? Its Infinity wards fault for releasing a game that could be considered still in its alpha stage! Either way the idiot in you is to strong to understand :(

It isnt really a glitch if someone is using a hacked 360 to run their own code is it? Hasnt the ability to mutate this into public games been fixed for a while now? (i play on ps3 so i dont know for sure).

People seem really intent to spend a large portion of their time hating this game...